Brazil’s incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro and election challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have called each other a liar during a heated television debate.
The term was used more than a dozen times by each of the candidates during the 90-minute TV Band encounter and comes before the presidential election’s run-off on 30 October.
“You are a liar. You lie every day,” Mr da Silva said during one exchange.
Mr Bolsonaro said: “You can’t come here to tell people these lies.”
Mr da Silva, who was previously president between 2003 and 2010 and who is mostly known as Lula, said the country needs a leader to “take care” of them.
He said: “Bolsonaro, you continue lying through your teeth.
“Effectively, I’m going to come back to govern this country because the people need someone to take care of them.”
He also criticised Mr Bolsonaro for his “negligence” in dealing with the COVID pandemic, which has killed 680,000 Brazilians, and for his role in playing down the seriousness of…
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